Jumpy Investors
Gain Reasons
To Look Abroad

Investment advisers and regulators are finding ways to encourage people to invest more abroad, even though investors are jumpy about foreign stocks.

The recent selloff in Shanghai stocks, which helped to spark routs in global markets, spurred U.S. investors to yank money out of foreign funds. And now that foreign markets have snapped back, investors are once again buying up international assets. That's similar to what happened last...